0 to legally take another person's child into your own family and take care of him or her as your own child: --
She lives in a 3-bedroomed home with five dogs she adopted from an animal shelter.
Only about 20 percent of all dogs and cats that come into the rescue centre will be adopted.
They have no children of their own, but they're hoping to adopt.
She had the child adopted (= she gave her baby to someone else to take care of).
2 to choose someone or something or take something as your own: --
Roz has adopted one or two funny mannerisms since she's been away.
Dr Kennedy has been adopted as the party's candidate for South Cambridge.
3 to pay money in order to have your name connected with a particular thing, especially in order to help an organization raise money: --
4 to take another person’s child legally into your own family to raise as your own child: --
The latter are still in use, but have been adopted exclusively by members of the political class and business people.
In adopting such self-reliant approaches, entrepreneurship, a sense of pride, self-fulfilment and achievement are evident among community members.
She argues that care is needed to avoid primary-age children being encouraged into adopting an adult-style learning approach, which they are too immature to handle.
A key par t of this "strengthening" movement was to unify the nation by adopting one language as the standard.
The use of only revolute and prismatic pairs is adopted by reason of their genericity and technological implementation.
In principle this was much like multi-pillar systems that have recently been adopted in other countries around the world.
The 1998 table is similar to the new table that was adopted in 2004 for men but overstates mortality for women.
The procedure adopted by the practice for communicating test results involved direct communication of screen-positive results only.
